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Contents Cover illustration by Jay Bevenour August 24-30, 2011

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10 Top 10 drug Corners

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A look at the city’s drug trade in 2011.

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Sans Serafina Regarding Brian Freedman’s review of Serafina: I heartily agree with Brian Freedman’s review having had an almost identical experience several nights prior to the appearance of his review (had I waited for Wednesday’s issue, it would have saved me the trouble). However, I would add the following plea to his review: There are countless restaurants in Philadelphia serving amazing food at competitive prices by competent, hardworking staff that there is no need to waste your money at a New York chain knockoff. By supporting our homegrown restaurant scene, we reinvest in and support what makes Philadelphia such a great restaurant city while boosting our reputation nationally. Leave the Serafinas in New York.

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Our meal started out with carpaccio that had an odd brown tinge to it and not much flavor. My bruschetta was soaked with about as much olive oil as was humanly possible. Pastas were deviod of any flavor and the pre-shredded mozzarella served at the table didn’t help. My margherita pizza had one (yes!) sprig of basil on it and more pre-shredded mozzarella cheese (as opposed to the finer stuff). And all my complaining to the hostess, Letitia, did not help. She was too busy outside on the place talking on her cell phone (no doubt to some celebrity) than to address my concerns.

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Love this review! Looking at the menu while passing by, I wondered if this was some sort of family-style-portion restaurant. Then I wondered, there has to be a lunch menu with at least a few items under $15? Considering it took, what, a year, for this place to finally, open, it sounds like a bigger bust than Aaron Maybin. Can’t wait to see what it becomes in its next incarnation.

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Curf Your Enthusiasm Regarding Matt Petrillo’s news feature on Mayor Nutter’s response to “flash mobs”: Why isn’t the media making a big racial circus out of this?

It’s hard to say who’s more hated in the U.S., Congress or the media.

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Curf War Mayoral candidate Diop Olugbala leads an anti-curfew crusade.

By Michael Alan Goldberg mgoldberg@philadelphiaweekly.com

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together with blacks in solidarity against the curfew. “It’s of the utmost importance because part of Michael Nutter’s strategy was to isolate the black community by racializing the issue of crime, by saying this is a question of certain black youth who are a so-called ‘disgrace to their race,’ as opposed to Michael Nutter himself taking responsibility for the failure of his own policies,” he said. Olugbala reiterated that the recent youth mob violence has “everything to do with the violent attacks of poverty and budget cuts, and police repression like stop-and-frisk.”

“I plan to become the mayor,” he added, “and do away with the police containment of our community and usher in a new period where economic development—led by the community itself—can be the way to resolve so-called violence in the city of Philadelphia.” n

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resistance to “the violence of poverty,” Olugbala gestured toward City Hall, and then at the dozen or so bicycle cops lined up across the street, reinforced by more officers in police cruisers and vans stationed along the block. “They know these youth have the capability and potential to get organized and overturn this rotten, filthy system,” he said. “We defend these youth. They’re not a flash mob.”

The protest—which got under way half an hour before the 9 p.m. curfew was set to be enforced, and included members of Uhuru, the Philadelphia Coalition of the Heart and others—was part of the Black is Back Coalition’s “International Day of Action Against the Wars on Africa and African People.”

Demonstrators unfurled a banner with images of Nutter, Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey and District Attorney Seth Williams behind bars with the word “Guilty!” stamped across each of their faces, and “The real Flashmob is in City Hall!” written underneath.

“You have here what we call ‘the Uncle Tom trio,’” said Olugbala.

One after another, protesters grabbed the bullhorn to shout their grievances.

“They can spend $56,000 to pay over-

“[Kids] shouldn’t be runnin’ up and beating up on random people, but people gettin’ shot and killed every day out here.

Forget Center City … go across Washington Avenue and worry about all them other neighborhoods where real shit happens.”

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Bullhorn in hand, 34-year-old Diop Olugbala—the tall, thin, resolute leader of the Philadelphia chapter of the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement and, as of Aug. 11, independent mayoral candidate—made it clear it wasn’t just happenstance that the corner of Broad and South streets was the gathering point last Saturday night for a protest against the city’s recently instituted youth curfew in Center City. “When the Phillies won the World Series, right where we standing, white kids were running up and down, turning over cars, tearing down street lamps, but you didn’t hear a press conference come from Michael Nutter like this specific attack being waged against African youth,” shouted Olugbala, who’s running under his birth name, Wali Rahman.

“That’s right!” someone in the crowd of about 60 protesters circled around Olugbala—split evenly between blacks and whites—yelled out.

Some applauded. Others hoisted brightly colored signs: “African Youth Are NOT Criminals!”; “White People Demand An End To The Jim Crow Curfew”; “Phila Police Are The Flash Mob.” Characterizing the recent youth-mob violence that’s led to the curfew as noble

A little past 9 p.m., Olugbala and his fellow demonstrators began swiftly marching east along South Street, chanting slogans.

“We need schools, not the curfew!”

“Fight for teen jobs, not the flash mobs!”

“Who run South Street? Not the police!”

Bicycle cops rode alongside, occasionally barking at protesters to stay on the sidewalk. A police captain and two sergeants, radios in hand, walked even with the group on the opposite sidewalk. Reactions from shoppers, people smoking outside bars and restaurants, and others along the atypically sedate South Street was varied.

Near 10th Street, one couple set down their bags to cheer on the throng. “They want to protect their civil liberties to walk down the street without getting harassed by the police,” said the woman. Others stared and laughed, snapped photos, or shook their heads. Near the corner of Eighth and South, two neighbors—a man and a woman, both 44—stood against the bars of their gated courtyard and watched the procession go by. The man took a flier from a female protester bringing up the rear. “Oh, it’s the People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement—these guys are left of left,” he said to his neighbor. “I want the curfew indefinitely,” said the woman. “It has been a hard past three years where we felt like prisoners in our own homes.

Swarms of kids, some of them literally

pulling old people out of cabs and beating the bejeezus out of them.” Since the curfew took effect, she said, “It’s night and day here. It’s phenomenal. We have our neighborhood back.”

At Fourth and South, the chanting protesters crossed the street and headed back to their starting point with police still slowly bicycling along. Back at Broad and South, Olugbala reiterated his demand for an immediate end to the curfew and rallied his supporters to keep up the fight.

Across the street, a police captain smiled and glanced around the block. “No problems at all,” he said, shaking hands with fellow cops. “It was very peaceful.” Afterward, his voice hoarse from chanting, Olugbala told PW he was happy with the turnout, and glad to see whites marching

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“Uncle Tom trio”: Demonstrators say Mayor Nutter and his cohorts are guilty of racializing crime.

time to the pigs [to enforce the curfew] ... but they can’t give a damn dime to our schools, but they gonna arrest our children?” one woman hollered. “Hell no, Michael Nutter, your ass gotta go and this curfew needs to go.”

Harris Daniels, Northeast regional representative of the African Peoples’ Solidarity Committee, implored other white people to join the cause. “We’re taking a stand with this march, not only against the curfew policy but also against a system that criminalizes and locks up African youth and tells us that we’re supposed to be afraid of an 11-year-old,” said Daniels.

“We reject that notion. They can’t just count on us to go along with the program because they don’t care about us, either.”

As protesters spoke, ringed by news cameras, passers-by stopped to see what was going on. Gregory Lee, 28, holding a bag of leftovers from Johnny Rockets as he walked toward his South Philly apartment, had mixed feelings about the curfew.

“I don’t condone the violence, [kids] shouldn’t be runnin’ up and beating up on random people,” said Lee. “But people gettin’ shot and killed every day out here,” he continued. “They worryin’ about people gettin’ rolled on? Somebody gets sucker punched walking home from work and this is what happens. Forget Center City … go across Washington Avenue and worry about all them other neighborhoods where real shit happens.”

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Brewhaha

Harrisburg readies for what will be an epic fight over liquor privatization.

By Randy LoBasso rlobasso@philadelphiaweekly.com

hire back PLCB employees, many of whom are part of the UFCW, through tax credits; allow tuition reimbursements for employees who get further schooling in the subject; and provide a nonspecific “leg up” for former employees who choose to seek other civil-service work in Pennsylvania. “[Turzai’s bill] restores the American way,” says Jay Ostrich, director of Public Affairs for the Commonwealth Foundation, a Harrisburg-based think tank that’s dedicated much of its research and lobbying efforts to getting the government out of the booze business. “The PLCB, as it stands today, is absurd. It’s a socialistic system and it certainly flies in the face of freedom.”

Liquor sales brought in a record $496 million in tax revenue for the fiscal year that ended July 7, according to a PLCB report. Critics like the Commonwealth Foundation call this number inflated, and say it does not take into account the more than $215 million in salaries, benefits and pensions to government employees, including “$90,000 per store spent in yearly taxpayer-funded advertising.”

Turzai’s legislative plans for getting this through is anyone’s guess (he did not respond to repeated requests for comment on this article), and when the House

“[State Rep. Mike Turzai’s bill] restores the American way.

The PLCB, as it stands today, is absurd. It’s a socialistic system and it certainly flies in the face of freedom.”

-Jay Ostrich, director of Public Affairs for the Commonwealth Foundation

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Back in 1933, when national liquor sales were re-legalized, some pols weren’t too happy. Prohibitionist Pennsylvania Gov. Gifford Pinchot was one of them. Because of that, he created the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board, he said, to “discourage the purchase of alcoholic beverages by making it as inconvenient and expensive as possible.” Seventy-eight years later, we’re one of two states (Utah being the other) in which the government still controls both wholesale and retail sales of alcohol. Thanks a lot, Pinchot.

But times may have changed. The GOP controls the state Legislature and governor’s mansion, and we seem to be in an era of major government-program backlash. So a new bill that seeks to privatize the PLCB may be exactly what Pennsylvania needs to move into the 21st century.

Sources say the bill is very high on the Legislature’s agenda (No. 2!), and when House lawmakers return on Sept. 26, the fight over the PLCB is set to get down and dirty.

The man with the plan: Pennsylvania House Majority Leader Mike Turzai. In July, he introduced House Bill 11—called

the LCB Privatization Plan—which he and others say would help both consumers and business owners while bringing in a ton of much-needed cash by selling off liquor licenses to private industry.

The first step would include auctioning off 1,250 private liquor licenses to the highest “responsible” bidders (the current government licenses, of which there are 621, would be defunct). That would include 750 “Class A” licenses—stores with 15,000 square feet of space, or more— and “Class B” licenses, for smaller stores.

Turzai and others say the state would collect $2 billion immediately, though others, including the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 1776 say that number is inflated and based on estimates from 1997, the last time privatization was attempted.

Next, the lawmaker plans to eliminate the 30 percent PLCB markup and the “Johnstown Flood Tax” (18 percent liquor tax) to be replaced with a “Gallonage Tax,” the price of which is yet known. Twentysix states employ a gallonage tax on liquor and 35 impose one on wine.

Turzai also hopes his bill will encourage independent stores and large retailers to

reconvenes there’ll be a mess of amendments to deal with on the issue, many of which State Rep. Mike O’Brien, who opposes the bill, plans on introducing.

“In this economy, the bill is nothing more than a fire sale,” says O’Brien. “You’re selling something that’s currently undervalued and [the state] is going to lose a lot of money if this goes through … A lot of people just don’t want to vote in favor of liquor-store clerks to lose their jobs right now.”

O’Brien, a self-described “pro-labor Democrat,” says there’s an estimated 3,500 UFCW Local 1776 employees who will be out of work should the bill be passed (he doesn’t believe it will get through the House, though; a coalition of Democrats, pro-labor Republicans and socially conservative Republicans will keep the bill from going through, he says). O’Brien believes large retail stores like Wal-Mart will purchase the bulk of Class A liquor licenses and move their current employees around so they stack liquor shelves in addition to their normal routines, creating no jobs.

State Sen. Larry Farnese doesn’t think the bill will make it to the Senate, either,

and agrees there will be layoffs the state can’t afford if it does. “I’ve had conversations with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, and I don’t see support for it,” he says. “It’s not going to be along party lines, either. You’re going to have broadbased opposition to this bill … The fact that there’s a real possibility that people will lose their jobs is not something we can afford right now.”

Wendell Young IV, head of Local 1776, has taken a front seat in the fight against this bill, testifying several times to the Pennsylvania House Liquor Control Committee. “If this were successful you would not only see my members all laid off but 5,000 Pennsylvanians would lose their jobs in the worst economy of our lifetime,” he says. “There’s no doubt about that. And Turzai walks around cavalierly, saying ‘They’ll be fine, they’ll be rehired’ but the evidence is abundantly clear by what goes on in other states that the lion’s share of licenses will be purchased by existing retailers who will allocate the assignments of their current employees.”

But Ostrich says pro-labor groups are the ones using scare tactics. He believes the bill’s incentives and two classes of liquor licenses ensures Young’s predictions don’t come true. “We don’t want to replace a public monopoly with a private one,” he says, pointing to a provision in the bill that would not allow one entity to own more than 40 licenses. “If Pennsylvania went to the per-capita national average, we’d have 2,800 liquor outlets [and] 6,600 wine outlets. The current measure doubles the number of existing stores to 1,250 but we’d like to see that number grow so it’s reflexive of a true free market.” Unlike the current system, he says, the free market wouldn’t cap the number of jobs.

To illustrate just how complicated liquor control has become, even former PLCB Chairman Jon Newman has publicly denounced the Board as a counter-productive entity that’s outlasted its welcome. He also believes, given two-thirds of Pennsylvanians currently favor privatization, it’s going to be hard for many state lawmakers to vote against Turzai’s bill.

“Pennsylvania has a real prohibitionist mentality,” Newman says. “But with the sophisticated populaces in places like Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, [lawmakers] owe it to their constituents to bring them into the 21st century. If this thing steam rolls and it gains excitement and momentum, it’s going to be hard for people not to vote their district’s interests.”

A source close to the Governor’s Office who wished to remain anonymous says if the legislation is struck down, Gov. Corbett may offer his own bill. Who knows, maybe Corbett would have better sway over the Legislature than Turzai to get the bill passed.

But if not, Newman says, “the bill is dead for our generation.” n

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A look at the city’s drug trade in 2011.

By Steve Volk feedback@philadelphiaweekly.com Edited by Jonathan Valania In 2007, I wrote a cover story for this publication called “Top 10 Drug Corners,” which ranked the city’s most depressing and dangerous drug corners like Philadelphia magazine ranks pizza or bars or bikini wax salons. After all, when you strip away all the blood and guts and stray gunfire, drug dealing is, at heart, competitive retailing of a rare and precious commodity: Feeling good. There is, of course, a huge market for such a commodity, especially in places that are inhospitable to legitimate business and industry.

Which is why the drug trade always seems to flourish in places where angels fear to tread. Philadelphia, one of the poorest major cities in America, has many such places.

In many of the city’s neighborhoods, the opportunities for gainful employment are so scarce and hopelessness so abundant that a vacuum has been created—and nature, of course, abhors a vacuum. With no noise of legitimate enterprise to fill the air—no rumble of a truck toting freight, no murmur of conversation from shoppers mingling on the sidewalk—the most prevalent sounds arise from the underground economy.

“Wet, wet, wet.”

“Xannies!”

“Suboxone!”

“Oxy!” “Greenies!”

“Dope?”

“You smokin’ that crack?”

“What you need?”

Eight different come-ons, from a vast collection of different Philadelphians—white, black and Latino; young, middle-aged and graying. And all these offers speak to the same basic truths: Philadelphia is awash in the narcotics trade. And like all illicit economies, the drug trade begets a brutal gangsterism whose stock in trade is violence—on an industrial scale. The statistics are as astonishing as they are appalling. “We’ve had 16,000 shootings here in the last 10 years,” says Assistant U.S. Attorney Rob Reed.

“Sixteen—THOUSAND!” That averages out to four Philadelphians being shot every day, or one citizen every six hours. Since 2008, more Americans have been murdered in Philadelphia than killed in Iraq. In other words, we have the equivalent of an undeclared shooting war raging semi-visibly in the city’s most desolate and depleted neighborhoods. And Philadelphia is hardly the exception to the rule. Rather, depressingly enough, it is the rule.

As a result, the poorest of the poor in Philadelphia are cut off from the most basic aspects of personhood that the rest of us take for granted. They live in constant fear of seemingly random violence, which, sustained year after year, has created an increasingly common mindset—which some would call cynical and others would call being realistic— that the powers that be either cannot help them, do not care to help them, or, even worse, somehow profit from their suffering.

“Who do you think lets all these drugs in here?” is a question I have been asked, countless times, when sources in the city’s poorest communities flip the script on me and start questioning their questioner. There is a profound hopelessness reflected in that query, a conspiratorial world view that powerful forces have allied against them. It could be easily dismissed if it weren’t so common, and for that matter, understandable. Logic would dictate that if somebody (or many somebodies) wasn’t profiting from all this carnage, it

to City Hall quickly and conveniently.

But today, neighborhood-sustaining ‘good jobs’ for workers without college educations are scarce to nonexistent, and too many residents use that North Philly subway line not to attain marriage licenses and construction permits, to engage in the legitimate commerce of Center City, but to make it on time—or not—for court dates at the Criminal Justice Center. Solving the drug problem by purely economic means would require a level of public and private investment on a scale that is simply not tenable in this day and age. Barring some massive New Deal-style publicworks initiative that revives the manufacturing base of the

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United States, the prospect of employing our way out of this problem seems remote at best. So finally, this leaves us with our last and perhaps most intriguing, promising and politically hazardous possibility.

We could legalize drugs.

That is itself the topic for another great many articles, and we will take no position on it here, except to say that if we legalized narcotics tomorrow, surely the violent young men slinging dope on the corners of North Philadelphia would be rendered as obsolete as bootleggers after Prohibition.

But until then, I give you, for better or for worse, the Top 10 Drug Corners in the City Of Brotherly Love circa 2011.

10. 100 E. Somerset St.

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Sitting just a block or so from the infamous B Street bridge, this corner is part of the de facto junkie superhighway that connects all the car, train and foot traffic on Kensington Avenue to the wide range of drug corners in the area. I watched one young man and a woman, who could have been his mother, traveling back from a score toward the train that would whisk them away from all this urban decay. The woman ambled, legs wide, as if she had climbed down from a massive horse and reached deep down into her baggy sweatpants and started fishing around. The young man looked more scared than embarrassed; this was the sort of thing that could get them searched and arrested.

“What the fuck are you doing?” he hissed.

His companion was heavyset, middle-aged, with big, sad, swollen eyes. And even before this she looked to be on the verge of crying. She stopped. And with a hurt look in her eyes, she used both hands to pull the front of her pants out several inches from her waist.

Then she peered down into her crotch like there might be something written there and drove one unsteady hand into her waistband. Her hand shaking, she yanked out a big, plastic baggie. If anyone had any doubts before, they were gone now. They were junkies, Laurel and Hardying their way through life.

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would have been stopped a long, long time ago. Ridiculous, right? And yet, how do you explain that the cycle continues day after day, year upon year, with little change: The bullet-riddled hive of corners, blocks and neighborhoods lorded over by teenagers with guns strapped to their hips; the little boys serving as lookouts calling out ‘5-0,’ warning dope-slingers off the streets when the cops show up; the neverending line of zombie-fied addicts shuffling up to the dope merchants dispensing their daily fix at pretty much the exact same spots, every day?

This list arrives with some major caveats: First, there is so much drug dealing in the city—and the mechanics and geography of the drug trade is so fluid—that narrowing it down to the Top 10 corners is a fool’s errand: It could well be 20 corners, or 50 or 100. Furthermore, even the most extensive combination of face-to-face interviews, bootson-the-ground surveillance and crunching of arrest stats will at best result in a snapshot of a moment in time, and the enduring accuracy of that resulting picture is debatable. The truth is, the locus of the most heavily trafficked drug corners is constantly shifting in reaction to supply and demand, police activity and internecine turf warfare.

If one corner is not active at the moment, then the action most likely lurks around the next corner or will be awfully soon.

Most will sensibly interpret this as a list of corners to stay away from. Others will, ill-advisedly, use it as a buyer’s guide. The point of this list is not that all of Philadelphia is consumed by the drug trade, but rather that one particular part of Philadelphia (and a relatively small one at that) suffers the lion’s share of the ravages of the illicit drug trade: All 10 drug corners on our list are located in North Philadelphia’s Kensington and Fairhill sections.

Which is not to say that no one is fighting the good fight there. Neighborhood activists are always in play. And judging by the numbers, the police have focused their attention on this area of the city. In fact, a map of the city’s corners where five or more drug-related arrests were made for the 15 months from 2010 to the end of March 2011, demonstrates that no other region of the city is the scene of so many narcotics busts as the real estate stretching from Lehigh Avenue to Westmoreland Street, and from Kensington Avenue to Broad Street. But in fact, within that section of the city, the majority of arrests were concentrated in an even smaller area—from Lehigh to the south to Westmoreland, roughly a half-mile stretch, and from Kensington to N. Fifth Street, a distance of just less than a mile.

In a city with a prison system that is already bursting at the seams, the police are working harder here on a purely statistical level than anywhere else. But a simple walk through the neighborhood reveals how little good that has done. In the face of all this blight-pocked urban dysfunction, the list of viable remedies is short: We could remount something like Operation Safe Streets, making police so visible in the neighborhood that drug dealers simply cannot operate as they do now—out in the open in broad daylight.

But the cost of that program was about $4 million a month in police overtime and ultimately deemed unsustainable.

Even though an argument could be made that Safe Streets was worth every dime, the city no longer has the political will or financial resources to maintain what was essentially a police occupation of wide swaths of the city.

Perhaps the saddest aspect of the streets I walked in North Philadelphia is that the people risking their lives to either sell, take, or often sell and take drugs, are carrying out these deeds quite literally in the shadows of the old factory buildings that once upon a time employed thousands of hardworking Philadelphians who actually made things. Up until the 1960s, Philadelphia was a crucial pillar of the American manufacturing base. North Philadelphia was a working-class enclave. The many thousands of rowhomes both east and west of Broad Street were built to serve this population of workers; and the Broad Street Line subway was built in the 1920s to move passengers from the northern part of the city

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9. 2900 N. Third St. When this corner was up and running, the crew there seemed particularly disciplined. One teenager looked away from me and announced “Cop, cop, cop,” as I walked by. The rest just averted their eyes entirely. At other corners, they just glared at me and went right on working. But beyond that, the method of operation seemed common: Some kids act as lookouts; one man collects money; another dispenses product. The extra bodies could be hangers-on.

But some of them, at least, are likely there to help re-up the supplies when they run low. Others might act as decoys if the cops were to make a bust here. Decoys, if they are doing it right, lure the cops away during a sweep by running in a different direction than the people actually carrying evidence.

8. 2800 Hope St.

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It’s perhaps the most ironically named street in Philadelphia. As one user told me, venturing into the wrong area at the wrong moment with the wrong look on your face will get a man “kilt, or at least an ass whupping.” So I followed the skinny, white boys with transluscent skin, blinking in the sunlight like noctural creatures as they came shuffling off Kensington Avenue, and I followed the hipster kids, venturing away from the legit businesses on the Ave. to live out their own Trainspotting moment. In the end, the only thing separating the long-gone junkies from the hipsters appeared to be age. Both dressed in skinny jeans and T-shirts. Both wore Converse sneakers. But the junkies were skinnier, with big gaps in their smiles. They were all going back, most likely, to far better streets than Hope, which seemingly exists only to serve the habits of people with more money than the residents here, where the nicest house on the block sells for just $8,600. Both groups, the lifers and the hipster tourists, wound up on Hope, doing quick hand-to-hands within a big spit’s distance of a crossing guard on Front Street. “I got no problems with the dealers,” the crossing guard told me. “I mean, I gotta problem with what they doing but [when] I tell ’em I need this block clear for a couple of hours, they get out the way. They know it’d be bad for business to fight it.”

8 7. 200 E. Stella St. I walked alongside a heavy user here, an old black man who hesitated a long time when I asked for his name. “Eh,” he finally sighed.

“Hoppy.” He dressed in jeans and a big, button-down flannel shirt on a hot day. His clothes were covered in a thick layer of grime. He vowed to show me all the spots. But when we got west of Front, he said he needed to break off. “What’s up?” I asked, thinking he wanted money.

Them d-boys,” he said. “They be smoking that wet.” I’d heard a lot about this: drug dealers smoking weed laced with PCP. A lot of people think they are a big source of violence in the neighborhoods, dealers getting high on product that’s more hardcore than most of their supplies. “How do you know they’re on wet?” I asked him. “’Cause they be crazy,” he said. “Just look in their eyes. They be looking at you but they seeing something else.”

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6. 3300 Argyle St. 3300 Argyle and 3000 Water are ranked neck and neck because they are so similar statistically, and among the most frightening I walked. With a stunning 60-plus arrests in each of these two blocks over a 15-month time period, I expected these blocks to be silent—policed into quietude.

But that was hardly the case. Both these corners illustrate the whack-a-mole effect of trying to arrest your way out of the drug problem. There are dozens of corners on which dealers can (and do) operate and as soon as one gets arrested, without fail another steps up to take his place. As one of the junkies around here told me, “Every crew keeps a list. Someone get arrested they just go to the next man on the list. Now he gets his shot.”

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6 5. 3000 N. Water St. “I wouldn’t blame anyone for being scared of North Water,” says 24th District Police Captain Thomas Davidson. “I had one of my officers shot there last summer.” In that incident, police pulled over a white van suspected of involvement in a shooting earlier in the day. They were right. Two gunmen got out of the car in the 3000 block of N. Water and started firing, ditching a total of eight guns on the block as they fled. Police Officer Kevin Livewell was hit in the leg. Police recovered loaded handguns and assault rifles too powerful to be stopped by police body armor. This past April, a 47-year old woman was also shot in the back and killed on N. Water.

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4. Fifth and Westmoreland streets/ 3300 N. Fifth St. I made three trips to this little two-block stretch of Fifth and Westmoreland streets and the abutting 3300 block of N. Fifth Street.

These blocks were among the most active I saw this year, and the stats demonstrate that with 21 arrests on Fifth and Westmoreland and 59 on the 3300 block of N. Fifth. Economically, things are just as grim. The average sale price of a home here tops out at $10,000. And in terms of drug activity, one perch or another along this stretch always seemed to be up, with teenagers and 20-somethings wearing those ubiquitous white-T uniforms working to feed this city’s bottomless hunger for dope.

3. 2800 N. Mutter St.

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This block of Mutter is among the poorest in the city, with homes selling for less than $10,000 and an average median income of $11,900. I witnessed numerous stacks of people shuffled one behind the other for drugs like they were waiting in line at the post office. This is the first place I saw one of the dealers glance at me with that faraway look—like he was staring at and through me at the same time, eyes wide. The ghosts around here were hollering “wet” one day this June. I say ghosts because teens, most likely gun-strapped and definitely working, seemed to melt in and out of the block from easements and cross streets.

Several junkies had warned me that the dealers themselves were often high and extremely unpredictable. “They shoot you for no reason ’cause they paranoid,” one old head told me.

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2. 270 N. Front St. Front and nearby Silver Street were big destination points for people getting off the train at Kensington and Somerset in trips I made here throughout May and June. The hand-to-hands here are quick, with customers giving cash to one man and moving on to another who slips them a baggie. One day, a user came sailing past me, around the corner on to Silver, and briefly holding his arms out to his sides like a human airplane. “Got that Superman today,” he grinned, calling out the name of the day’s hot heroin brand. I asked one man, who appeared to have no part in the drug trade, if he was nervous being so near all this. At first, he shakes his head “no” at me. But he won’t speak or even meet my gaze. Then, as I walk away I hear him call out behind me: “Nah man, they got this down to a science!”

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By all appearances, the drug trade seems perfectly legal at the corner of Kensington and Somerset. It’s not quite a no-arrest zone—there have been more than 100 drug arrests within a few-block radius—but on the days I visited, dozens of dealers, buyers and hype-men worked ’round the clock, unmolested by law enforcement. The notorious Kensington Strip extends from the corner of Somerset, where the dealers operate, to Allegheny Avenue, where the prostitutes work what they call “The Stroll.” While hustling for customers, the prostitutes stay far enough away from Somerset to evade any of the gunplay or occasional arrests that go down there. But when they are finished working they often walk the half-mile or so to the heroin dealers and cop. “Heroin is a morning market,” says Narcotics Capt. Debra Frazier. “With crack, addicts will smoke a rock and come back for more. But heroin users, they nod off and drool and they want to be someplace safe for the day with all the heroin they need. So they come out in the morning and buy as much as they need and take it home or wherever they’re going.”

A big part of the foot traffic includes guys like “Brad,” a junkie I met who boasted he works the corner “seven days a week, seven to seven.” I saw him every time I went to the corner of Kensington and Somerset, though I’m not sure if he remembered me after the first visit. He was drooling that day, nodding even as he spoke, his eyes closed halfway, the thick spittle on his lips running slowly down his chin. “I work here,” he told me. “I tell them where the good dope is for $5.”

“What’s good today?” I ask him.

“Adidas is … the bomb ... today,” he says, spittle dripping thickly from his lower lip. “It is very, very potent.”

“So you make $5 for referrals?” I ask.

“The customer gives me $5 for the info on what’s hot. If they need me to show ’em the way to it, I’ll walk ’em to get their shit for $5 more. And some people, if they can’t poke themselves, I poke ’em.”

“You inject them?” I ask.

“Yeah,” he said, “and that’s another $5.”

“This is hell,” one man told me, who works at a repair shop at the corner of Kensington and Somerset. “This is the most God-awful place on Earth.” This halfmile of illicit commerce makes a mockery of Kensington’s bygone days as one of the city’s most flourishing manufacturing and retail hubs. As local historian Ken Milano has said: “There used to be a saying” in the neighborhood’s old manufacturing glory days: “If you can’t get it at K&A, you can’t get it.” Unfortunately, that’s still true. It’s just that the merchandise has changed. n

The Top 10 Drug Corners in the City of Brotherly Love 2011 was a joint project undertaken by Phawker and Philadelphia Weekly, and funded by a grant from J-Lab and the William Penn Foundation. To read the complete version of this story—an additional 6,000 words—go to Phawker.com.

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taste of three local indie-rock-ish outfits that’ll also be playing the Philadelphia Film & Music Festival (a.k.a. Philly F/M) in lateSeptember. You’ve got Hezekiah Jones, the Raphael Cutrufelloled ensemble that’s turned their earthy indie-folk more orchestral

7pm. $25. With Wolff. Theater of the Living Arts, 334 South St. 215.922.1011. tlaphilly.com

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The 1968 film, directed by Kiyoshi Saeki, follows actor Tomisaburo Wakayama (best known in America for his appearances in the Lone Wolf and Cub series), aka, the wicked priest, a holy Buddhist man with a hunger for blood, gambling and women, who travels the land righting injustices by his sword. “Let all evils fall on me. I live for the challenge of conquering them,” the wicked priest narrates, before slaying the throats of crooks in a massive bloodfest.

The film is part of Cinedelphia’s Unknown Japan: Little-Seen Artifacts of Japanese Cinema program. It was first released by Toei Studios, known in the ’60s for yakuza, or violent crime movies before it mothered four sequels and a spin-off series for Sugawara. Though, few will argue, the original is still the best. abiGail bruley 7:30pm. Free. Broad Street Ministry, 315 S. Broad St. 215.735.4847. cinedelphia.com

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tious of late. There’s Cheers Elephant, which injects Mod spirit into their sparkling psychpop. And finally, Nico’s Gun— four young gents with plenty of synths, guitar riffs, swagger and LCD Soundsystem electro-funk sensibilities. Michael alaN GolDberG Wed., Aug. 24. 6pm. Free. Piazza at Schmidts, 1001 N. Second St. 215.467.4603. atthepiazza.com

that four-year stint in Guns N’ Roses, which probably paid for a lifetime of 12-piece meals.

Tonight he’s going to do things to his guitar that will amaze and frighten you. M.a.G.

Buckethead Jeebus H. Christmas—I think I put a KFC bucket on my head when I was 5, and all I got for my trouble was some greasy chicken crumbs in my hair and a spanking. Brian Carroll puts a chicken bucket on his head and a creepy white mask on his face and suddely he’s BUCKETHEAD—adored by millions! (Well, tens of thousands, we’ll say.) Oh, right, the crazy guitar playing, too. The 42-year-old Buckethead is an avant-metal genius and utterly ridiculous shredder. Dude’s played with Mike Patton, Les Claypool and Bootsy Collins, and there was

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Artists Against Censorship Rebellion comes in many forms and can erupt in any culture, but the methods to quell such stages of discontent are always the same: violence, imprisonment and, often, death. Even the most passive means of voicing criticism or rebellion—through literature—has received its fair share of aggressive responses beyond just censorship. And for Burma, writers and poets are living in fear of facing the same dismal fate of many imprisoned or killed for their messages against the government. The Philadelphia chapter of the U.S. Campaign for Burma, an organization dedicated to promoting human rights and democratic freedom, is hosting an event in honor of these fallen soldiers to raise awareness on this issue and money to help current political prisoners in the country. An open mic will be open to poets, musicians and performers, and all proceeds benefit the campaign. alexis sachDev 5:30-8:30pm. $5. Moonstone Arts Center, 110 S. 13th St. 845.591.8960. moonstoneartscenter.org

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Tim Kasher’s a born minstrel, wedded to stories and a dramatic mein. His albums are operatic odes to heartbreak told in three-act arcs of boy gets girl, boys loses girl, and boy attempts to stave off bitter despondency with liquor, sex and indolence. Since 2000’s arresting divorce album, Domestica, Kasher’s obsessed over the fractional details and inner workings of romance in both band (Cursive) and solo projects (The Good Life), with occasional diversions, such as 2006’s religiously-themed Happy Hollow. While Cursive traffics in slashing post-punk, Kasher’s solo material—lately released under his own moniker—is more refined, embellished with strings, horns and keyboards while soaking in his romantic existentialism. chris Parker 9pm. $12. With Aficionado, Laura Stevenson + the Cans. Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Ave. 215.739.9684. johnnybrendas.com

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While you probably don’t need an excuse to go out and enjoy a few caffeinated and/

or alcoholic beverages, the fact that you’ll be simultaneously helping the fight against HIV/ AIDS is definitely a great incentive. Nearly two dozen coffeehouses and bars across the city will be participating in the second annual, all-day fundraising event, including Café 12, Tavern on Camac, PYT, Woody’s, City Tap House, the Bike Stop, Café Cret and La Colombe. Each will donate a portion of their proceeds to four local HIV/AIDS service organizations, which provide medication, health care, counseling and legal services to thousands of people living with HIV/AIDS in our area. Also in support of the event, volunteers will be selling tickets for a huge raffle at several of the participating bars and the City of Brotherly Love Softball League will be holding a pub crawl through the Gayborhood. Nicole FiNkbiNer All day. Free. Various locations. 215.981.3328. facebook.com/BarAIDSPhiladelphia

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26 Displaced The new show at the Center for Emerging Visual Arts, featuring work by Philadelphia photographers Noah Addis and Bohyun Yoon, explores what happens when people leave home behind—out of desire or necessity—and create new lives in the places in which they find themselves. Addis, a Drexel graduate and Pulitzer Prize winner, focuses on communities in the American West that depend on the Colorado for survival, historicizing the impact of the river on the development of the Western landscape and population through generations of settlers. South Korea native Yoon, who currently teaches at Tyler School of Art, contributes photographs of his Fishtown neighbors— the immigrant and mixed-race communities that have settled in the neighborhood over the years to create its rich history. The photographs are printed on sheets of glass, whose transparency speak to the commonality of all these people (and indeed Yoon) in their experiences living within the hyphen of Americanicity. In eliminating the first half of the hyphenation for just a second—forgetting African, Asian or Greek—these photographers speak to what it means, historically and in the modern world, to be American. DarreN White 5-7pm. Free. Through Sept. 15. The Center for Emerging Visual Artists, 237 S. 18th St. 215.546.7775. cfeva.org

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f the many 10th anniversary remembrances of the events of Sept. 11, 2001, “Excavating Ground Zero: Fragments from 9/11” may be the simplest and most poignant.

The exhibit features 15 normally commonplace items that embody greater meaning through context, as they were recovered from Ground Zero days, months, even years after 9/11: A pair of eyeglasses, a computer keyboard, visitor badges, glass from the Twin Towers and more. Also included in the display, a collaboration with the National September 11 Memorial Museum, is a memorial sculpture and projected images of the events of the day, as well as a wall where visitors can share their own memories of what they saw and felt on 9/11, and what stays with them a decade later. M.A.G. Mon., Aug 29. $6-$10. Through Nov. 6.

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and they’re real damn good. Arc In Round, the shoegazey rock quartet led by guitarist-vocalist Zeigler, self-released their second EP back in July. Taking cues from both My Bloody Valentine and Can, their sound is herculean, dreamy, syrupy, cinematic, romantic and astonishingly rhythmic. Elliott ShArp 7:30pm. $8. With Brown Recluse + Royal Shoals.

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Battle On Canvas For this second annual battle, a group of both emerging and professional local artists—from painters to graffitists—will be given a blank canvas and eight hours to create their next masterpiece. The catch: They’ll have to do it outdoors in the sweltering heat while swarms of spectators mingle and party it up around them. The participating artists are welcome to partake in the festivities, which include food, booze, live music and a rotation of DJs, but they should probably refrain until after their masterpiece is complete. All the day’s artwork will be lovingly hung inside the Arts Garage throughout September where it’ll be up to the public to decide which pieces are truly deserving of the $500 grand prize. The winner of the publicly juried exhibit will be announced during the Philly Open Studio Tour in early October. n.F. 2pm. $5-$10. The Arts Garage, 1533 Ridge Ave. 215.765.2702. theartsgarage.com

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Boney James

P H I L A D E L P H I A W E E K LY August 24 - 30, 2011

If you’ve never heard of Boney James, chances are you’ve never been inside a swanky, soulfood restaurant or a black beauty salon or anyplace where you’d find upwardly mobile black folk, decked out in their best duds, coming together to get their classy on. These people need a soundtrack, and James’ adult-contemporary, soulful sax grooves are often what’s playing. The dude may fit the saxophoneplaying hepcat profile, but his music shouldn’t be dismissed as Kenny G-style smooth jazz. A soul-music fan from way back (he even started out playing with R&B bands), his albums have included collaborations with a slew of R&B vocalists—Faith Evans, Anthony Hamilton, Angie Stone and Dwele, just to name a few.

On his latest release, Contact, he gets Mario, Heather Headley and former Destiny’s Child LeToya Luckett to provide vocals. But even if you’re not a buppie and just prefer your R&B all jazzy and mellow, nice background music to have while you sipping on some yak or a full-bodied glass of Chablis, you can’t go wrong with Boney. crAiG d. lindSEy

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Mantua Family Day Festival For the seventh year, Mantua’s diverse community and thousands of city residents will be coming together and partying it up in the streets for West Philly’s annual all-day bash.

In addition to vendors and food, there will be plenty of activities to keep the youngsters entertained, including carnival rides, face painting and a live animal exhibit from the Philadelphia Zoo. During the day, Fourth Wall Arts Salon will be hosting an arts showcase open to local performers of all varieties followed by an emcee competition with prizes and several high-profile industry names serving as judges. Once the sun sets, the festival will culminate with what’s guaranteed to be an epic old school hip-hop concert featuring none other than Slick Rick, Kwame, Chubb Rock and Naughty By Nature. n.F. Noon. Free. Raindate: Sun., Aug. 28. 34th and Mantua Ave. mcic1.org

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28 Male Bonding Male Bonding is either a term to describe a bunch of bros hanging out or a noise rock band made up of three bros from London, England, but we’re here to talk about the latter. After releasing their debut album Nothing Hurts last year, they’ve been preparing for their follow up album Endless Now, which drops this month. Male Bonding have been bonding with female groups as well, such as their 7-inch single with Dum Dum Girls titled “Pay For Me / Before It’s Gone” and a collaboration with Vivian Girls on their track “Worse to Come” off Nothing Hurts. With MB’s super catchy, fast fuzzy sound, you’ll find yourself bonding with everyone around you. KriStin touSSAint 8pm. $10. With Love Inks + Break it Up. Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St. 215.291.4919. kungfunecktie.com

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29 ANR Miami synth-pop duo ANR used to go by Awesome New Republic, so, y’know, thank God they ditched that name. There’s a press photo where the singer-keyboardist looks like a serial killer, but less in a “Dexter” kinda way than a “Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer” kinda way. And the drummer looks a little like a long-haired version of that guy that was in

the Short Circuit movies and somehow used to date Michelle Pfeiffer. You know you care about this shit—you gotta look at these dudes onstage for an hour. You’ll dig their psychelectronica if you like the new MGMT + the old Beach Boys + maybe Tears for Fears. It’s floaty. It’s sorta romantic. It’s like dancin’ on air. Not the TV show. Well, maybe a little. M.A.G. 8pm. $10. With Moon Bounce. Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St. 215.291.4919. kungfunecktie.com

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30 Thurston Moore + Meg Baird More than 30 years ago, Thurston Moore initiated a feedback-enraged teenage riot with a little band called Sonic Youth, but on the new Beck-produced Demolished Thoughts he significantly softens the assault and decreases the volume. Can ya blame him? He’s a grown-ass man now; more in tune with his gentler, quieter side. With its introspective yet semi-Dadaist lyrics, warm and non-combative acoustic instrumentation, and dalliance with beautiful heartfelt ballads, it’s a mature but sexy make-over. Make note that Philly resident Mary Lattimore’s plucking harp in his quartet. Opening is local songwriter Meg Baird, who once ran with Espers and sang on Kurt Vile’s “Baby’s Arms.” Her new LP’s due next month on Drag City. E.S. 8pm. $15. First Unitarian Sanctuary, 2125 Chestnut St. 215.821.7575. r5productions.com

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Clean up Bartram’s Garden This summer, Travel & Leisure released its list of the Top 10 Dirtiest Cities in America and unfortunately, Philadelphia sits at No. 2.

Bartram’s Garden, the oldest living botanical garden in the U.S., rests on the banks of the Schuylkill, meaning that oftentimes trash get carried downstream into the garden. United

By Blue, a sustainable apparel company, has pledged to remove a pound of trash from the garden for every one product sold. They’ll provide the gloves, water, snacks and trash bags.

Throughout the evening, volunteers can enjoy games and contests. You’ll have the chance to walk away with free UBB swag and prizes.

And, at the end of the evening volunteers can relax at a BBQ. Photographers will also have a chance to win prizes by posting their images to the UBB Facebook page where fans will vote for their favorite. The cleanup may not have a huge impact on making Philadelphians more aware, but it’s a good start to try to keep the city clean. SydnEy Scott 5:30-7:30pm. Bartram’s Garden, 5400 Lindbergh Blvd. 215.642.0691. unitedbyblue.com

You’re Quite the Dish

Gnocchi with tomato cream sauce, crab and pistachio at Monsú. feedback@philadelphiaweekly.com

Gnocchi at Monsú, you are quite the world-traveled dish!

That’s right. My recipe was taken home from Chef Peter McAndrews and Damien Messina’s trip to Sicily. They feasted on a rigatoni dish with tomato cream sauce, crab and mozzarella. I’m their take on that recipe, which is from Catania, a coastal town on the Ioanian Sea. So what are the main differences between you and your cousin in Sicily?

Well, instead of rigatoni, I’m a light, pillowytextured ricotta-based gnocchi made with ricotta impastata, nutmeg, pecorino, eggs, flour and salt.

What about the sauce?

The sauce is simple: San Marzano tomatoes, garlic, heavy cream, lemon juice, salt, lemon and orange zest and mint. That’s it! Then add your toasted pistachios, fresh crab meat and garnish with ricotta salata.

That is simple!

Uncomplicated and delicious. And unlike some other joints, you won’t find me drowning in sauce. I don’t swim.

So what would you suggest customers order along with you?

Chef Messina thinks I’m perfect just on my own. To him, the best thing about Italian cooking is its simplicity, so order me as your main course and bring along a bottle of Pinot Noir. Alla fine.

Anything you’d like to share that customers are saying about you?

I’ve become a neighborhood dish on 9th Street. My fans say that I’m the best “gnocchis” they’ve ever had! I’m so flattered that I don’t even correct the silly Amedigans that gnocchi is already plural. n

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the shrimp and the calamari had taken on the texture of pencil erasers. This was made even more unfortunate because the flavors were just where they should have been, the charring heat of the grill helping the citrus marinade find an appealing middle ground between smoky and sweet. Eggplant parmesan, while classically conceived and executed, failed to rise above the level of pretty good. That marquis ingredient fared much better in the babaganoush, a simple mash of smoky roasted eggplant brought to vivid life with aggressive hits of lemon juice and garlic. This dish is easily one of the best meze below Broad Street right now.

Braised octopus could have used that same sense of aggression and verve. All the necessary parts are there—the steak-like texture of those meaty pieces, the evocative aromatics hovering above and around the dish—but it lacked that deep sense of hearty comfort that the best versions possess.

An order of cappelini and meatballs was treated like pan-fried noodles in Chinatown, and arrived looking like a glistening bird’s nest with its topping of excellent oxtail ragu. The meatballs packed a seriously complex punch despite their ethereal texture—I utterly loved these—but those noodles were more oily gimmick than payoff. Mediterranean salad—one of a number of vegetarian-friendly options on the menu—hit its target better, Fun while it lasted: The funions arrive like a pile of tangled dreadlocks, the Sriracha aioli cutting the oil and sweetness just enough. and took smart advantage of the summertime bounty: Wildly delicious tomatoes, sunset-toned carrots, snowy feta and a simple olive oil dressing.

There may be no more pleasant way to enjoy an Old City evening As for the pizzas, they follow through on the promise implied than on the rooftop terrace at Revolution House. An unaccustomed by the wood-fired brick oven. The selection generally hews to the calm reigns up above the scuttling of Market Street tourists with classics, and is all the more appealing for it, like the Calabrese their maps and too-tight jean-shorts, the pretty girls idling outside the gauntlet of restaurants between Second and Third streets entic- with fior di latte and that region’s eponymous salami, “agro ing you in for a drink or a meal. The wood slats of the floor up there dolce” with red peppers. Even the standard-bearing margherita speak of some kind of urban porch at the shore. A revolution indeed is a solid option—subtly acidic San Marzano tomato sauce cutting into the creaminess of fior di latte mozz, perfumed basil for casual Market Street. balancing out the headier notes of the olive oil anointment. Nice.

Revolution House is a place to drink and nosh and not get too This last one is also a great palette against which to explore bogged down in the details. In that regard, it’s a perfect new tenant the wines that have been expertly assembled by Sena stalwart for the old Snow White Diner space, and an apt partnership with Bill Eccleston: It’s unusual John Poulos and Ristorante Panorama’s Luca to find such a thoughtSena. ful, global and appealing The focus here seems to be on the apcollection of bottles and proachability of the food. It’s a more-thanRevolution House glasses in such a compact pleasant breakfast, lunch, dinner and 200 Market St. 215.625.4566. list. The leathery perfume late-night spot that the neighborhood needs. and dusty berries of the How else to explain the presence of Cuisine: Unexpectedly snack-y “Italian diner-style.”

Cantina Sociale “Riserva” “funions” on this menu? As expected, of Hours: Mon.-Thurs., 8am-11pm; Fri.-Sat., 8am-1am; Sun., 2003, a beguiling blend of course, the charm of this deep-fried frizzle 9:30am-11pm. negroamaro and malvasia, is irresistible. This is one of the great truths seems to be emblematic Price range: $5-$19.50. of the world, an 11th Commandment of of the wine program here. sorts: Thou shalt be won over by deep-fried Atmosphere: Beautifully rendered interior, and one of the It wears its sophistication onion, be it Awesome Blossom or French’s best spots for outdoor dining in Old City. lightly, without even a hint French Fried Onions in that old cardboard Food: Most successful with the more casual dishes. of self-satisfaction. Market jar. The funions here arrive like a pile of Street can be for growntangled dreadlocks, the Sriracha aioli cutService: Friendly and enthusiastic. ups, after all. ting the oil and sweetness just enough.

So maybe that’s the key to Tater tots, too, plumbed these oil-crisped happiness at Revolution House: depths. And just like their onion counterparts, these are archeOrder a glass or three of wine, maybe a draft from their eight typal in appearance and compulsively poppable: Snappy outside, evolving taps, or a cocktail like the peachy-yet-manly “American almost molten inside (at least for the first few minutes after they’re Revolution”—Bourbon, peach bitters, muddled peaches and delivered), and utterly unreliant on the foam-light mustard sauce cherries—and snack the night away. Enjoy it with a scattering of accompanying them. With a whiskey or a hoppy beer, you’ve got a dishes from a table in the industrially attractive dining rooms by perfect late-night or pre-game snack. the glow of beautifully wrought light fixtures and chandelier, or Things end up on slightly shakier ground, however, when you from your perch above it all. The food may not change your life, start to move away from the bar-food-type dishes. but the ambience and drinking are tough to beat. n Seafood and vegetable skewers were so overcooked that both

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Pride charade: A group of friends gather at a couple’s N.Y.C. apartment to watch—and ridicule—the annual pride parade.

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Part of Quince Productions’ celebration of GayFest!, Sunday is about a group of gay men who gather in the apartment belonging to Tom (Andrew J. Tardif) and Michael (Adam Darrow) to watch New York City’s annual gay pride parade pass by on the street below (the boys’ humble abode is on Christopher Street, the epicenter of N.Y.C.’s Gayborhood).

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Among the couple’s friends we meet is Brad (Jonathan Steadman), a writer for Entertainment Weekly and a notorious flirt, the youthful wannabe actor Joe (Cameron Munson), and the elder statesman of the group Charles (Peter Haas), an opera queen trying to stay alluring as he creeps inexorably toward middle age.

If you are in the queer urban community or hang out with it, the characters are as recognizable as the topics they discuss, at least initially. Early in the play, Tolins keeps the tone light with a lot of banter about “body guys” who live at the gym, the bar scene, opera, musical and gay theater, and various celebrities they find sexually appealing (including one funny segment where the guys voice their opinions on which member of the O.J. Simpson trial they’d most like to bed). However, when Tom’s ex, James (Peter Zielinski in an intriguing portrayal), shows up, the play adopts a more serious tone. “I hate gay pride day. It

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makes me feel ugly and mean,” Michael announces with more than a hint of self-loathing. “Aren’t we supposed to feel fabulous?”

The performances, directed by Josh Hitchens, range from the good to the excellent. The real star of Sunday, though, is Hitchens’ direction. Not only does he coax assured performances from a mostly young, inexperienced cast, his understated, quiet approach serves both the material and the setting nicely. The Shubin is one of the area’s smallest venues, and Hitchens’ intimate staging allows the audience to connect with the characters and become fully invested in their story.

Tolins’ play is at times reminiscent of the 1968 groundbreaking drama The Boys in the Band. In Sunday, however, it’s 2003 and a lot has transpired in 35 years (the Stonewall riots, AIDS, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”). Marriage equality hasn’t yet been realized, but that hasen’t stopped Tom and Michael, who at the play’s outset are preparing to purchase a home in a well-manicured suburb and settle down to a life of domestic bliss.

Tolins’ play isn’t perfect. With the exception of James and Susan, the characters are more types than fully drawn individuals, and the play’s attempts at metatheatre (Charles regularly expresses that he and his friends’ activities could be in a gay play) is unnecessary and poorly managed.

Nevertheless, Tolins’ exploration of community and gay identity are well-considered. Sunday raises provocative questions about a community that (in his view) puts a premium on youth and physical beauty. More importantly, he asks what it means to be gay, or to paraphrase one character, is being gay determined by who I sleep with or my record collection? As America becomes more comfortable with different sexual orientations, Tolins suggests the greater challenge for gay men may be accepting themselves.

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Distributed Collectives may be an exhibition best enjoyed from the comfort of your home computer because you don’t necessarily need to visit the gallery in order to enjoy the work.

Curated by Little Berlin member Kelani Nichole, the exhibition spotlights three new media art collectives who practice in a range of media from basic computer drawing to cutting-edge technology used to spawn avatars, orchards and sculptures visible only to the virtually enhanced eye.

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While there’s a motherlode of hardware in the gallery (16 computers, two projectors, a formidable switch and a heap of Internet boosters), it all serves as a base to support the real artwork that exists in the disembodied space of the Internet. This approach works well when the viewer is asked to interact with the artwork, but falls flat in the case of quieter pieces with less arresting content.

Computers Club, a drawing club for the technologically inclined, uses the web as

medium to draft two-dimensional artworks shared via their blog—which is where they stand up best. Standard in size and often created using Computers Clubs’ browserbased drawing tool, the compositions run together like drafts in a drawing exercise.

Reliant on technology whose complexity is hidden from the casual observer, these drawings are an insider affair, best enjoyed when you’re part of the team. Their jerky, incremental graphics, smooth planes of airbrushed color and pixilated lines flicker on gallery monitors like vintage screensavers; they count time but never truly make a mark.

Works by the collective F.A.T. (Free Art and Technology Lab) can likewise be explored online, either in the gallery via browsing stations, or at any home computer.

However, their presence in the gallery is anchored by the realization of some complex projects, making F.A.T.’s work as engaging in the gallery as it is in the online version of the exhibition. Much of the work is browserbased with a boisterous sense of humor.

Greg Leuch’s “Shaved Bieber” browser extension censors any mention or image of Justin Bieber’s ubiquitous face; Tobias Leingruber’s “Pirates of the Amazon,” replaces Amazon’s “buy now” button with “download for free,” routing visitors to a free version of the book hosted on a rogue server. Inspired by a similar vision for open access, Golan Levin’s “QR_Hobo_Codes” offers instructions for creating QR code stencils that can stand in for a hobo’s signature chalk scratches. Cut into sleek, silicon slices, Golan’s stencils are used to spray paint secret messages for any wayfarer bearing a smart phone. Like much of F.A.T’s work, the project is canny, cheeky and political with a touch of cyber romance.

In a digital world, where everyone roams from site to site, Golan lets us know where we can score a bowl of hot soup.

More radically site-specific than even a QR hobo marker, the collective Manifest.

AR contributes the most exhilarating work in the show by deploying augmented reality (AR) technology to explore a new kind of space. Founded in 2011, the collective creates geo-specific art installations, backed by a stridently hopeful manifesto announcing that in AR, “The Safety Glass of the Display is shattered and the Physical and Virtual are united in a new In-Between Space.” Dislocating the viewer from our “so-called Physical Real,” this in-between space hurtles toward us when we stumble upon the colossal, hidden sculptures in “ScreensavAR” by Sander Veenhof. Visible only through a smart phone using the “filter” function in an app called “Laylar,” Veenhof ’s work forces the viewer to physically scan the gallery in order to discover the delicately helixed sculptures that float above our heads. Like peering through a magic spyglass into another dimension, Veenhof ’s work plunges us into a spatially dissonant reality. Suddenly—impossibly— we physically exist in the same space as a virtual phenomenon. n

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Katie Holmes stars in the remake of the classic horror flick Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark.

By Matt Prigge mprigge@philadelphiaweekly.com Inherit the Wind (1961): Jerome Lawrence’s and Robert Edwin Lee’s 1955 play pits analogues of Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan against each other in a battle over evolution. In Stanley Kramer’s bathetic film adaptation, it’s one Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde against another: Spencer Tracey, who plays the Darrow stand-in, starred in the 1941 version, which paled mightily in comparison to the 1931 classic that scored an Oscar for the man playing the Bryan character, Frederic March.

In this case, however, March wins the battle but Tracey wins the war.

Caligula (1979): Because of the eternal popularity of Shakespeare, veterans of his films tend to intermingle, with sometimes amusing results. Two Hamlets (Laurence Olivier, of his own 1948 stab, and Toshiro Mifune, of The Bad Sleep Well) starred in the Moonie-funded disaster Inchon. Two more Hamlets—Kevin Kline, of a 1989 TV version, and Kenneth Branagh, in his own unabridged edition— duked it out in Wild Wild West. And Penthouse’s pricey porn epic shelled out for two future Prosperos: John Gielgud, of Peter Greenaway’s out-there Prospero’s Books, and Helen Mirren, in drag, from Julie Taymour’s somehow less out-there The Tempest.

Out of Sight (1998): Who was vying for JLo’s affections in Steven Soderbergh’s greatest film? Why, it was two former Batmans: George Clooney and, in a too-brief cameo, Michael Keaton.

Notes on a Scandal (2006): One Queen Elizabeth (Judi Dench) against another (Cate Blanchett)! Catfight!

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the dilapidated abode. With all of their savings leveraged into this project, they’re counting on a cover story from Architectural Digest to help them flip the place. (Forget about mole-folk haunting the basement, I’d bet a much more frightening movie could be made about the current real-estate market.)

McKeand’s teleplay has been thoroughly Del Toro-ized, with the focus shifting to Pearce’s precocious daughter Sally, played by sad-eyed Bailee Madison. Still reeling from her parents’ divorce and unsure what to make of Holmes’ age-inappropriate would-be step mother, why wouldn’t the poor kid be delighted by the catcalls of new furry friends in the cellar, despite the stern warnings of Jack Thompson’s gruff groundskeeper?

Right away we can tell that Thompson knows more than he’s letting on, when a clutzy camera move ominously pushes in on him, triggering the Mother of all evil: Katie Holmes (left) tries to save her stepdaughter from the first of several bad laughs. mysterious monsters in the basement.

Those creatures from the furnace are now nimble little computer-generated rodents, prone to all sorts of mischief while scampering about the frame. They Based on an oft-rerun 1973 ABC Movie of the Week that don’t stay friendly with Sally for very long, quickly movtraumatized an entire generation, this week’s horror remake ing on to all sorts of creepy-crawly shenanigans with sharp is something of a passion project for writer-producer household objects.

Guillermo Del Toro, the prodigiously gifted monster maven The biggest structural problem with Don’t Be Afraid of the who, infuriatingly enough, has not directed a picture since Dark is the filmmakers’ attempt to prolong a situation that 2008’s disappointing Hellboy II: The Golden Army. After in any sane world would have a swift and rational solution: wasting his considerable talents on a years-long dalliance “Honey, there are a bunch of talking fucking rats in this with The Hobbit, and assorted other projects that never house who feed on children’s teeth. Perhaps we should sleep panned out, Del Toro was at least able to godfather producsomewhere else tonight?” tion on this abandoned script that he penned with his Mimic The screenplay would have us believe that these preoccuco-writer Matthew Robbins back in 1999. Originally slated pied parental units consider the mayhem a figment of Sally’s for a January release, Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark is only hyperactive imagination. But Director Troy Nixey (a comic now finally slinking its way into cinemas during the end-ofbook artist making his feature debut) errs on the scale of summer graveyard. the attacks. It’s hard to imagine a sullen Famously dashed together within 10-year-old is even capable of causing a span of two weeks, writer Nigel the kind of elaborate property damage Don’t Be Afraid Of the Dark McKeand’s original Don’t Be Afraid wrought by these infernal creatures, of the Dark was the kind of obscure Grade: Cand even harder to believe that her genre treat that used to be circulated on Director: Troy Nixey folks wouldn’t right away figure out that bootleg VHS tapes and was often missomething’s amiss. The groundskeeper Starring: Katie Holmes, Guy remembered with a shiver by kids who turns up brutalized with a razor and Pearce and Bailee Madison were probably too young to be watching kitchen scissors, and these morons it in the first place. The original True seriously think it was an accident? What Grit’s Mattie Ross (Kim Darby) inherited kind of accident exactly? a country house only to find herself tormented by mole-like I hate to sound like such a logic Nazi when discussing a homunculi that crept out of a wood stove in the basement. horror movie, and if Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark moved a The central gimmick was that these creatures were averse to little faster it would be easier to overlook the massive credlight, which conveniently allowed them to remain off-screen ibility gaps. Very late in the game, a helpful librarian shows most of the time. Factor in the single setting, and you’ve got up to dump a truckload of exposition, as apparently nobody the stuff of low-budget legend. involved in restoring this historic mansion had any idea But as with most Hollywood remakes, money is no longer that the previous owner and his child disappeared under an object. So the new Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark winds up mysterious circumstances? He was kind of a famous painter, straddled uncomfortably between its modest premise and wasn’t he? reckless CGI abandon. It tries admirably to stay contained Nixey knows how to stage a decent jolt, and the film’s final within a lone set, which is now a massive Rhode Island manor that belonged to a famous painter who met a mysteri- set-piece goes to some admirably nasty places. But it’s just too damn impossible to buy anybody’s behavior under these ous end 100 years ago. The film stars Guy Pearce and Katie circumstances. Less would have been a lot more. n Holmes as real-estate developers attempting to re-vamp

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so it’s always kind of “new.” Not always good, mind you. I saw him in Jones Beach, [N.Y.] four days before he played at the Mann Center. The first show was transcendent. Mann was a bit of a letdown. It’s a roll of the dice.

Due Dylan-gence

What did he do at Jones Beach that he didn’t at the Mann? Or is it even something you can quantify?

He brought more energy, plus the jamming was much more impressive. When Charlie Sexton (his guitarist) is at his best, he’s a thing to behold. But when Bob holds him back too much—which he did at the Mann—it’s like keeping the Van Gogh in the closet.

Watching Bob Dylan live with a Bob Dylan-obsessive.

By Brian McManus bmcmanus@philadelphiaweekly.com

You wrote that really cool “Inside Dylan’s Brain” piece for Vanity Fair. How you came up with that idea for it is pretty interesting.

I’d been trying to get Vanity Fair to let me write about Dylan for a few years, before coming to the realization that they were never going to assign me an actual narrative piece about him. Anyway, I loved his satellite radio show, Theme Time Radio Hour. One day, I noticed that I was listening to the third or fourth George Jones tune that he’d played, and it occurred to me that for everyone who wonders what motivates/influences the man, he was offering it to us on a platter. All we had to do was “analyze” his radio shows. I tallied up all his shows—he did 100 of them in the end, all an hour long—and made a list of who he played and how many times he played them. The result, at least in my opinion, was a picture of Dylan’s own influences. So I took that data to Vanity Fair. They finally bit. The piece turned out really great, in large part because of the designers, Andrew Nimmo and Beth Bartholomew, who paid excellent homage to Milton Glaser’s iconic psychedelic Dylan poster from 1966. (Which, it turns out, was inspired by a Marcel Duchamp self-portrait from 1957. The wheel keeps spinning ...)

Several times at the show you insisted on me closing my eyes. You closed yours along with me. What do you get from Dylan with your eyes closed that you can’t from looking at him? Is there a “close your eyes” goal/purpose?

Not really. Sometimes Dylan shows can sound a little cacophonous, and I find that looking at individual musicians or performers sometimes distracts me from enjoying the total sound. Or that might be complete bullshit. If you close your eyes listening to music anywhere, you focus more on it, don’t you? Here’s a better one for you: My brother-in-arms for most Dylan shows is a wonderful photographer named Chris Wahl. He taught me what he calls “concert ears”—you cup your hands around each ear while aiming yourself right at the stage. Try it sometime. It totally changes—dare I say, enhances—the sound. (I might be in trouble for this. He told me last week he was intending to trademark the move.)

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Last question. At the show you said, “Dylan has written at least five bonafide anthems. Most people are lucky to write even one.” What’s your favorite Dylan anthem?

Ask any Dylan fan their favorite song or album, and they will almost all tell you that it depends on the time of day, the day of the month, the month of the year. But that’s kind of a bogus answer, right? Can I give you a couple? Favorite ’60s tune: “It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding).” Favorite ’70s tune: “Tangled Up in Blue.” Favorite ’80s tune: Tie between “Jokerman” and “Brownsville Girl.” Favorite ’90s tune: “Cold Irons Bound.” Favorite ’00s tune: “Mississippi.”

Favorite underrated Bob: “Changing of the Guards.” And I don’t care what anybody says, but Christmas in the Heart is a gem, even if I sometimes get the feeling it’s all a big prank.

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First and foremost, the songwriting. And by that I mean all sorts of things—the storytelling, the word choices, the phrasing, all of it. Second—believe it or not, I love the way he sings. And third, while this has become a bit cliche, it’s still true: You never know what you’re going to get at a Dylan show. He is always tooling around with his own songs, and

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Seeing Dylan with Duff is quite the experience. As the Mystery Tramp and His Band played their tunes—be it “Desolation Row,” “Simple Twist of Fate” or “Highway 61 Revisited”—Duff pulled the lyrics up on his iPhone and had me read them along as Dylan sang or had me close my eyes.

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Jake and Jamin Orrall were raised in Nashville’s music scene, where their father, Robert Ellis Orrall, settled down to be a musician, songwriter and producer. He’s made records for RCA, written for Taylor Swift and Reba McEntire, and produced albums by Swift and Love & Theft. This music-making spirit definitely rubbed off on his sons.

The brothers have been making hard-hitting rock ’n’ roll as Jeff the Brotherhood since 2001, and starting with 2002’s I Like You, released several albums on the Infinity Cat label they founded with their father. In 2004, they briefly joined Be Your Own Pet, a punk/garage outfit that had a handful of albums on XL, Infinity Cat, and Thurston Moore’s Ecstatic Peace label, but quit four years later to focus on Brotherhood.

After receiving praise from Jay-Z and Jack White for their rawkus live shows, the duo deservingly blasted onto the national radar in 2010. On their seventh LP, We Are The Champions (2011), they take the Ramones’ no-bullshit punch and marry it to early-Weezer’s spunky-pop to birth their most over-the-top, pedal-to-the-metal, party-or-die tunes yet.

In early October, they plan to drop a 7-inch featuring two songs produced by Jack White and released on his label, Third Man Records. Last week, they began a 21-city tour with Pentagram and Valiant Thorr, and they’ve temporarily

broken away from the caravan to play Philadelphia’s Bookspace tonight along with local bands Dry Feet and the Bad Doctors. PW caught up with Jamin en route to their Chicago gig to talk about books.

What was one of your favorite books as a kid?

Goodnight Moon. I don’t know who wrote it, but it was a good book to go to sleep to.

Have you read anything good recently?

I think most recently it was Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree. I like the way the characters talk and the time period. It takes place during the 1960s in Tennessee. It was really sad, but it was very good.

What’s your favorite book?

I really like Down and Out In Paris And London by George Orwell. But my favorite book of all time is John Steinbeck’s Cannery Row. It’s a perfect book. There are so many things I like about it, but I mostly love the characters and how Steinbeck portrays their emotions so well.

Do you read many music books?

Yeah. I just read the Neil Young biography, Shakey. That was amazing. I also really enjoyed This Wheel’s On Fire about The Band. It was written by their drummer, Levon Helm, about 10 years ago. The Band’s probably my favorite band ever.

They’re one of my faves, too. They’re not discussed as much as they should be.

Yeah, that’s true. But I’m OK with that because if they were I would probably get sick of them.

If you could choose a writer to write the story of Jeff the Brotherhood, who would it be?

Well, my favorite author is John Steinbeck, but I don’t think I would want him to write about us.

Why not?

I don’t think he’d be interested. [Laughs.] I don’t know. Maybe he would be if he was alive. n Jeff the Brotherhood play Wed., Aug. 24, 8pm. $10. With Dry Feet + the Bad Doctors. Bookspace, 1113 Frankford Ave. phillybookspace.blogspot.com

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I’m unemployed in Oregon and trying to come up with simple ways to make rent.

My dear wife and I would like your opinion on the legality of selling my teenage son’s sweaty gym clothes online. It sounds rather skeezy, I realize, and I’m only half-joking here. If we had a nonsexual website with pictures that weren’t necessarily of my son, would that be buffer enough? Would this be seen as me whoring out the boy? He’s up for it—as long as he gets his cut—but could I go to jail for this? He is 14.

Pimpin’ Out Real Teen’s Leftover, Acrid, Nasty Duds Speaking parent-to-parent, PORTLAND, informing your 14-year-old son that there are perverts all over the Internet who would be willing to pay him for his sweaty gym clothes wasn’t the best idea. Whatever you ultimately decide to do with his sweaty jocks, shorts and T-shirts—and I vote for tossing them in the wash—dangling the money your son could make catering to the desires of online pervs in front of him might inspire him to go into business for himself, whatever you decide to do. So keep an eye on his Internet usage, OK? As for the legal issues …

“Selling a physical property—sweat—might be an issue,” said Chris O’Connor, a public defender in Portland, Ore. “Also, he could be [charged with] fraud and misrepresentation for selling clothing he says is his 14-year-old son’s but isn’t.”

Even if no dissatisfied customers go running to the chamber of commerce, PORTLAND, there are other potential problems. For instance, as your son’s sweaty gym clothes make their way from his bedroom floor to the hands of underpants-huffing pervs all over the world, some items would travel—via U.S. mail or UPS or FedEx—through different jurisdictions.

While there may not be a statute in Oregon that you could be prosecuted under for selling his undies, Mississippi or Illinois or Vatican City “may have specific laws, too,” says O’Connor, laws that you could be violating.

The biggest potential problem: Underpants huffers wanna know exactly whose underpants they’re huffing. That means you’ll have to include pictures and biographical info on your website, PORTLAND, and involving a minor— even a fake/buffer one—in what many police officers, district attorneys, judges and some sex-advice columnists see as a kind of gateway sex work will quickly add arrest, prosecution, incarceration, crushing legal bills and a lifetime on a sex-offender registry to your current troubles.

Even if the authorities can’t point to a particular law that criminalizes your home business, they’ll find something to charge you with.

I’m sorry you’re hurting right now, PORTLAND, but I think you should come up with another way to make rent.

Six months ago, my 17-year-old son told me that he was seeing [insert male name].

No biggie. What troubles me: My son and his boyfriend are “furries” and open about it. The boyfriend is 18 and sweet, but he’s clearly the more dominant one. I’m worried that my son may not know how to say no to him. Adding to my concerns: I found a dog collar in the kitchen with an engraved tag with my son’s name on it. Dog collars seem like a heavy activity for a lad, Dan, and today I noticed a bruise on his throat that’s the size of a collar buckle. How do I ensure he is exploring safely without freaking him out?

Why This Fetish?

Go ahead and freak him out, WTF. Your son is being open with you about his sexuality—openly gay, openly furred, openly collared—and you shouldn’t hesitate to be open about your concerns. You won’t be able to talk

him out of his kinks, WTF, if they’re his kinks (and not, say, a teenage affectation), so focus on the issues: power dynamics and sexual safety.

Tell him it’s important that he be able to say no to his boyfriend, and let him know that you’re there for him if he has questions or concerns or needs a sounding board. Then ask him about the bruise on his neck. Dog collars are harmless—lots of kids and kinksters wear ’em—but if he and his boyfriend are playing choking games with that collar, and that’s where the bruise came from, that’s a very dangerous activity and it has to stop immediately.

In your shoes, WTF, I would bark at the boyfriend about that bruise, too. Furry, schmurry.

It’s erotic asphyxiation that you should be worried about.

A friend of mine came out as asexual this week on his blog. A couple of questions: 1. Part of me wonders if this is a “real” orientation. Is this the result of some sort of trauma or psychological stuff that could potentially be dealt with through a therapist? I realize that sounds close to the whole “ex-gay therapy” thing, and of course I don’t want to go down that path, but I guess it’s just hard for me to understand how someone can’t form a sexual connection with another person and still be 100 percent OK psychologically.

2. How do I react the next time I see this friend? Should I bring it up? Not sure about the etiquette.

Does LGBT Need An “A”?

1. Asexuality, according to asexuals and the people who love (but don’t fuck) ’em, is a real sexual orientation … or lack thereof. Usually.

Because, you see, some asexuals do “experience attraction,” according to Asexuality Visibility Network (asexuality.org), “[but] feel no need to act out that attraction sexually.” So it’s an orientation. Or a disorientation. Or something.

But whatever it is, it’s for real.

“I’ve been where your friend is,” says David Jay, the founder of Asexuality Visibility Network. “He wouldn’t have come out without spending a lot of time mulling it over, so respect that he’s done a lot more thinking about this than you have. If he identifies as asexual or anything in the big wide spectrum, you should respect that, period.”

First, I agree 100 percent with Jay. Second, it’s entirely possible that your friend isn’t really asexual, just as it’s possible that I’m not really gay and Marcus Bachmann isn’t really straight. Your friend may have decided to identify as asexual because he can’t deal with his sexuality or wants to opt out because he finds the games required exhausting. Or he may actually be asexual. Whichever it is, you’re not the sexual identity police. So long as your friend isn’t externalizing an internal conflict and making other people miserable in the process—a la Marcus Bachmann—your friend doesn’t need to be confronted or rescued. (And for the record: No one is “100 percent OK psychologically,” and not everyone needs sex and/or a romantic relationship to feel content and enjoy life.)

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$489,555 $425,000 MLS 5746449

RITTENHOUSE SQUARE

The Residences Chandler Place Condominium, at THE MURANO 2 Bedrooms.2.5 Baths

MLS 5746449

215.247.3600

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Starting $899,900

in the MLS 5866463 $400,000s

Fabulous Condominium LIBERTIES Walkers Paradise!

2 Bedrooms 2.5 Baths

Chestnut Hill 8039 Germantown Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19118

1 Bedroom 1 Bath $429,900 $269,900

MLS 5877920 MLS 5744269

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thIs week’s FeAtuRed PRoPeRtIes 277 CHESWOLD LA HAVERFORD Stunning 4br, 4.5b on 2 beautifully landscaped acres, +/-5962sf, pool & pool house, 3 car garage, prime location!

P H I L A D E L P H I A W E E K LY August 24 - 30, 2011

$2,875,000

411 S 3RD ST SOCIETY HILL Meticulous light-filled Federal restoration, 4br, 3.5b, garden, 1 yr parking

$1,335,000

Call Scott Neifeld

$599,000

Call Bruce Benjamin

$749,000

104 CHRISTIAN ST Stunning 3br, 2.5b, custom finishes,3 f/p, h/w flrs, 2 car parking w/garage, new price!

$649,500

Call Michele Golembeski

Call Izzy Sigman

Call Jean Burns

1512 MELON ST FAIRMOUNT New construction, 3br, 3.5b, wood flrs, garage, deck, 10 yr tax abatement

204 ½ S 3RD ST SOCIETY HILL OPEN SUNDAY 8/28 1:30-2:30 PM Contemporary, 3br, 2b, f/p, patio, deck, secure deeded parking

1201 & 1203 MT VERNON ST & 608 N 12TH ST SPRING ARTS New construction, 3br, 2.5b, h/w flrs, finished basement, tax abatement, 12th St with parking

$424,900 $434,900 each

1326 E SUSQUEHANNA FISHTOWN OPEN SUNDAY 8/28 11:30-1 PM Newly renovated designer home, 3br, 2b, +/-2000sf, yard, cook’s kitchen

1717 S MOLE ST NEWBOLD OPEN SUNDAY 8/28 3-4 PM Rehabbed 2br, 1b, stunning kit, h/w flrs

Call Leon Aksman

Call Trish Kelly

$359,900

$139,000

Call Maryellen Cammisa

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1825 S. 12th St. Newly renovated townhome in Passyunk features 4br, HW flooring, large rear patio 1817 Catharine St. Right-sized 3br/1.5ba townhome w/updates, wood-burning fireplace, Juliette balcony 773 S. 4th St. 2br/2ba Queen Village home w/pkg. Tons of light, HWfloor t/o, updated KIT 1004 S. 5th St. Rare find, New construction, 3 condo units, developing block in Queen Village 15 Christian St. Fantastic Queen Village 3 bdrm, Independence Ct – 4 years on tax abatement.

2053 Pemberton St. Roof-top deck 360 Center City Views! New Luxurious construction, 3br/2.5ba

$360,000 OPEN HOUSE $389,900 $414,900 $430,000 $475,000 $540,000

1stn Quarter Award Winners wColdwell a rBanker d Preferred Wi n er s 1419 N Hollywood St. Great rehab in the up and coming Brewerytown!

1601 Spring Garden St Unit G114 1BR/1BA Condo in Center Spring Garden area. Handicapped accessible.

792 N Pennock St Unit 1 Renovated bi-level 2 bd condo w/private yard. Fully permitted rehab.

2312 Brown St. Multi-unit great for owner occupant or Investor! Both units feature modern kitchens & baths.

757 N. Bucknell St. Bright & Spacious, 3 bed/3 bath on tree lined street. Open layout, h/w floors, high ceilings!

$60,000 $123,000 $239,000 $365,000 $479,900

NORTHERN LIBERTIES / FISHTOWN / NORTH PHILADELPHIA

RITTENHOUSE SQUARE / FITLER SQUARE / AVENUE OF THE ARTS 1239 S. Carlisle St. This newly renovated 3 br home along Avenue of the Arts has it all, take a look $249,900 1833-A Christian St. Brand new 2br/2ba two-level townhouse. Open concept flr plan, deluxe KIT OPEN HOUSE $274,900 1812 Spruce St. #2R Grand Scale 1br/1.5ba w/office area. Magnificent ceiling & molding details OPEN HOUSE $450,000 1812 Spruce St. #3R 2br/1ba New condo 1 blck off Rit Sq Mble bth, deluxe kitch. H/W fl. walk-out terr. A/C low fees/taxes. Pkg. avail.

OPEN HOUSE $395,000 1812 Spruce St. #2F Brand new 1br/1ba condo conversion, heart of Rittenhouse Sq., Deluxe KIT OPEN HOUSE $425,000 1912 Waverly St. Reduced! Charming historic home offers 2br/2ba, garden, fab kitch w/heated floors OPEN HOUSE $409,000 440 S. Broad St. 1, 2, and 3br luxury condos, 7 yrs left on tax abatement, garage parking available, pool fitness & luxury amenities incl., in condo fees, 1 yr builders warranty Fr $499,000 1812 Spruce St. #3F Brand new 3BR/3BA bi-level condo in the heart of Rittenhouse Sq. Deluxe kitchen, W/D hook-up.

OPEN HOUSE $775,000

441 West George St. 2br/1ba NoLibs Row Home is Priced to Sell 2034 Amber St. Excellent starter home with front and rear yards, exposed brick, wood floors 2155 E. Dauphin St. Great 4 bedroom Fishtown home!

1241 Buttonwood St. Hot NoLibs area! Ready for development!

UNIVERSITY CITY / WEST PHILADELPHIA

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5032 Chancellor St. 3br/1ba, Grt. Inv. Property. First-time buyer. Move in condition, close to universities 4948 Hazel St. 5br/5ba Victorian twin needs repairs but has potential to be restore to grand showpiece 4126 Chester Ave. Excellent Value Added Investment opportunity across the street from the University of the Sciences 542 S. 48th St. #B 3br/2ba, lovely shared courtyard. Quiet rear unit, private deck, FP, C/A, more 4813 Regent St. c.1892 restored Victorian Twin w/street orig details on quiet side street near Clark Park 4618 Osage Ave. 4br/2.5ba, beautiful home, Great Location, Orig. doors & flrs lead to lrg LR w/FP 514 S. 46th St. Stately 5bd/2ba Victorian on one of the most desirable blocks in the catchment area.

-546-2700 OLD CITY / LOFT DISTRICT / CHINATOWN

429 N. 3rd St Unit 2A Spacious Open Flr Plan w/exquisite finishes & bi-level loft area. Grt neighborhood!

315 Arch St. Unit 206 2 BR, 1 BA condo w/HW floors, huge windows, granite, SS appliances, & Tile Floors.

315 Arch St. Unit 504 1 BR, 1 BA condo w/HW floors, huge windows, granite, SS appliances, & Tile Floors.

315 Arch St. Unit 204 1 BR, 1 BA condo w/HW floors, huge windows, granite, SS appliances, & Tile Floors.

315 Arch St. Unit 704 1 BR, 1 BA condo w/HW floors, huge windows, granite, SS appliances, & Tile Floors.

144-146 N. 3rd St. Unit C Stunning bi-level penthouse unit with TWO decks – in the heart of Old City.

$270,000 $285,000 $295,000 $300,000 $300,000 $475,000

SOCIETY HILL / WASHINGTON SQUARE WEST 540 Cypress St. Charming, totally restored Historic Colonial, 2br/1.5ba, 2FP’s, wood flrs, A/C, exp. brick 130 Spruce St. #21B 3br/2ba w/garage pkg. City living at it’s finest, brand new hand-scraped hwflrs 440 Lombard St. Society Hill Gem: Townhome 4 BR 2.5 BA, EIK, SS Appls, HWFLR, FP, CA, Courtyard & Parking. Great location!

5XX S. Philip St. Liberty Court, meticulous 4br/3br/2 half baths, 3 decks, 2-zone HVAC, garden, parking

OPEN HOUSE $399,900 $625,000 $639,000 $1,235,000

$175,000 $189,000 $260,000 $425,000

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$74,900 $230,000 $325,000 $325,000 $375,000 $429,900 $569,000

NEW CONSTRUCTION (10 YEAR TAX ABATEMENT) 2101 Kimball St. #1 Modern 2br/1ba condominium with small garden 2101 Kimball St. #2 Modern 2br/1ba condominium in Graduate Hospital 2101 Kimball St. #3 Modern 2br/1ba condominium in Graduate Hospital 2123 Kimball St. New Construction in Grad Hosp – early Summer ’11 completion – 2 br/2ba – fini bsmt 855 N. Uber St. New Construction. 2 bed, 2 bath, bilevel condo, GORGEOUS! 2370 E. Norris St. NEW CONSTRUCTION JUST REDUCED! 1st fl commercial & two 2 bed apts 1st floor rent now $2500.

$239,000 $239,000 $265,000 $300,000 $300,000 $650,000

COMMERCIAL/INVESTMENT QUEEN VILLAGE/ BELLA VISTA / GRADUATE HOSPITAL / SOUTH PHILA. $67,000 $67,500 $80,000 $95,000 $99,900 $109,000 $125,000 $139,900 $152,000 $174,900 $174,900 $175,000 $179,000 $195,000 $199,900 $199,900 $209,900 $215,000 $229,900 $239,900 $239,000 $254,900 $259,000 $274,900 $274,900 $285,000 $307,500 $309,000 $314,990 $315,000 $325,000 $329,000 $317,500 OPEN HOUSE $349,900 $349,900 $350,000 $354,000

SURROUNDING AREAS Kensington – 654 E. Wishart St. 1st time buyer and inverstor, why rent?, own a 3br townhouse today Port Richmond – 3150 Agate St. Fantastic Port Richmond Row w/newer heater, new plumbing and more!

Mayfair – 4723 Vista St. Inviting façade w/front patio & rear deck. 3 Bd home w/garage encl as additional bedroom.

Port Richmond – 3107 Memphis St. Well cared for 3 br grt for 1st time homebuyers!

Mayfair – 2932 McKinley St. Well cared for 3 br, enclosed sun porch – new heater, newer windows.

West Phila – 923 N. 48th St. Expansive living space in 3-story, 5br/2ba home. 3rd flr br w/ sitting area Southbrook – 1907 Newkirk 3bd,1bth with rear parking. Hardwood floors. Reduced Mayfair – 3137 Longhsore St Awesome 3BD, 1bth. Rear parking.

Overbrook Farms – 2024 Upland Way Reduced for Quick Short Sale 870 E. Chelten Ave. Income generating multi-use investment opp. 4 units, rental income $2125/mo.

Newbold – 1838 Carlisle St. 3br/1ba, new KIT, HWflrs, new roof & hot water tank Modena Park – 3889 Fairdale Rd. Meticulously maintained 2br raised ranch, new KIT, sun room, fin bsmt Port Richmond – 3298 ½ Miller St. Recently updated 3 bdrm home w/detached 2 car garage.

Overbrook- 6385 W. Columbia Ave. Nicely maintained 3br/1ba, many recent improvements, 1-car garage Northeast - 15073 London Rd. Priced to Sell!

Manayunk – 4524 Smick St. Manayunk townhome fully renovated 2003, features 2br/1ba, rear patio Girard Estate – 2410 S. 19th St. Beautifully rehabbed 3bd/1.5ba home w/rear yard located in the Girard Estates vicinity.

Roxborough – 6812 Pechin St Fabulous twin, grt location across from a park. Lrg rear deck & yard.

New Hope – 97 S Main St. 2 story commercial property, 1st floor retail space & income producing apartment upstairs.

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1837 Dickinson St. 3br/1ba Fixer upper on good block in Point Breeze 1356 S. Stanley St. Recently renovated home at a great price!

2234 Cross St. Fully renovated 3br/1ba home w/open LR/DR area, gourmet KIT, and rear yard 1220 S. 20th St. Vacant lot, investment opportunity 2127 S. Woodstock St. HWFlrs throughout, good condition, shows well 3005 Carlisle St. Short Sale. Excellent Location 2214 Clarion St. 3br townhome in South Phila. Boasts remodeled KIT & lrg rear patio 2414 S Jessup St. Great house on a quaint street in Lower Moyamensing with a beautiful modern kitchen.

310 Gladstone St. Wonderful 2br home w/extra lrg bath, new kit., rear yard, many extras, 2nd fl laundry.

2431 S. 3rd St. Awesome re-finished 3br/1ba in Whitman 7116 Phoebe Pl. WOW! Tastefully updated dream home to move into. 3br townhouse with garage 1226 S. 20th St. Complete renovation in Point Breeze boasts an open flr plan, HWflrs, fin. bsmt 1020 Snyder St. DUPLEX! 2-1br units, very clean and maintained! New 1st floor full bath!

2725 S. Marvine St. Wonderful home on one of South Phila’s most desirable blocks-close to Marconi Park!

207 Gerritt St. Totally rehabbed updated townhome in Pennsport. 1st flr has refinished HWflrs, full bath 832 Mountain St. REDUCED for quick sale! Well maintained, good condition.

2846 S. 11th St. Price Reduced, HWflrs, new bath and kitchen 2002 S. 12th St. Spacious Passyunk Sq. home just two blocks fr Boad St. Walk to shops & restaurants 2706 S. 8th St. Awesome Rehab. High-end finishes, must see!

2251 League St. Recently renovated Graduate Hospital Corner property 3br/1ba home w/yard 1007 S. Chadwick St. Drastic Price Reduction – Recently renovated 2br home, lrg back yard, a must see 1180 S. 11th St. 5bd, 2.5 baths, Excellent opportunity. Drastically Reduced!

812 Cross St. Charming home renovated a few years ago, features many upgrades including rear patio 1029 Watkins St. Complete rehab. High end finishes, exposed brick walls, fin. Bsmt. A must see!

2208 Kimball St. 2 Bdrm. 1.5 BA. C/A. Lots of Upgrades. Finishes LL. 6 yr. tax abatement.

2531 S. 15th St. New Gorgeous Rehab. Large three bedroom, great location 1230 S. 7th St Gorgeous total rehab, HW floors, custom cabinets, finished bsmt, tax abatement, 3 br/1.5ba 127 Moore St. True Philadelphia character home w/2nd fl laundry and roof deck. 3bd, 2.5 bath.

705 S. Mildred St. Beautiful 2br/2ba, move in condition! Tax abatement, EE wind & drs, C/A, HWflrs 1612 W. Oregon Ave. Completely renovated home, exceptional level of workmanship 7 1 yr free pkg 1512 Montrose St. Amazing new home features American Walnut flrs, recessed lighting, huge roof deck 1718 Rodman St. Lovely renovated trinity home (kitchen on 1st flr) 1.5ba, charming st., nice garden space 314 Catharine St. #301 Beautiful 2br/1ba condo, 1300sqft, 12’ ceiling, huge windows on 3 sides, reduced 771 S. 2nd St. #H Spacious, cozy condo in heart of Queen Village. 2br/2.5 bath upper flr unit w/parking.

2926 S. Juniper St. Fully renovated home w/garage & driveway, quiet st off Broad, full bsmt,f C/A 1715 S. 10th St. Completely renovated townhome features HWflrs, lrg rear patio, full finished bsmt 1512 S. 2nd St. Fabulous 3 bdrm, New Front, Hardwoods, Kitchen, Fireplace – Move Right In!!

6734 Dorel St. Investor special, short sale, potential for solid rental property 2044 Reed St. Investment opportunity in developing Point Breeze neighborhood 2127 S. 65th St. Legal Duplex which presents grt opp for investor or owner occupant 2116 E. Lehigh St. Investment Property. Tenant Occupied. 2bd,2bth.

1231 S. 21st St. Investment property, rent ready, 3br/1ba 810 E. Chelten Ave. Income producing, fully occupied 4 unit bldg. Great investement opportunity 318 Mifflin St. Duplex in Pennsport 6147 Hawthorne St. Two –Unit corner lot, features two 2br/1ba units. Live in one, rent out the other 139 S. 50th St. Triplex in desirable area, legally zoned, separate utilities 2503 Frankford Ave. Well maintained Fishtown duplex many new upgrades – near restaurants & galleries 2335 S. 18th St. Duplex, well-maintained, good tenants 2438 S. 3rd St. Investor Opportunity-store front (deli/grocery) & 1 bed. Apt (leased), well maintained bldg.

1533-37 E. Moyamensing Ave. 3-story triplex & 2-story 2100 sqft commercial garage w/loft. Grt opp 4134 Chester Ave. Commercial space, tons of possibility, great loc, convenient to public transportation 6011-13 Market St. DBC wide Property, just reduced, store front with 2-2BD Apts.

837-839 Montrose St. 2nd old pool in City for sale, gr development opp. Creative financing available

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cENtER citY lUXURY coNDoMiNiUMs FoR sAlE! Location

ART MUSEUM

Total Square Footage

Price

Minimum Income Monthly Cost Monthly Tax Total Incld. Mtg, Condo Savings in a 31% for 10% Down Cash Fee & Taxes Tax Bracket Required Financing

Monthly After Tax Cost

tHe PHilaDelPHian

Combined home with 4 bedrooms plus den, 4 baths, large balcony with Art Museum view, upgr. kit. and baths

3,904

$599,000* $170,517 $227,956

$6,369

$858

$5,511

tHe PHilaDelPHian

2 bedrooms, 2 baths with views of the Art Museum and Center City skyline, upd. kit., large private balcony

1876

$439,900

$68,377

$167,041

$3,898

$1,919

$3,360

tHe PHilaDelPHian

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, new wood floors, balcony, Art Museum view, upgraded kitchen and baths

1876

$399,900

$63,582

$159,688

$3,726

$508

$3,219

tHe PHilaDelPHian

1 bedroom, 1 bath, wood floors, upgraded kitchen, ample living space

1258

$164,900

$17,990

$29,284

$1,890

$209

$1,680

Location

AVENUE OF THE ARTS

Total Square Footage

Price

Minimum Income Monthly Cost Monthly Tax Total Incld. Mtg, Condo Savings in a 31% for 10% Down Cash Fee & Taxes Tax Bracket Required Financing

Monthly After Tax Cost

acaDeMy House

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, split plan on a high floor, excellent lving and closet spaces, eat-in kitchen, master bedroom with ensuite bath & walk-in closet

1314

$379,900

$58,710

$135,098

$3,152

$442

$2,710

acaDeMy House

One bedroom, one bath, upgraded kitchen and bath, Juliet balcony, W/D

705

$289,000

$43,147

$91,067

$2,125

$315

$1,810

Location

RITTENHOUSE SQUARE

Total Square Footage

Price

Minimum Income Total for 10% Down Cash Required Financing

Monthly Cost Incld. Mtg, Condo Fee & Taxes

Monthly Tax Savings in a 31% Tax Bracket

Monthly After Tax Cost

barclay

3bedroom+den, 3.5 baths, marble foyer, formal dining rm, sunny eat-in kitchen, 10’ ceilings, moldings, oak herring bone floors, 3 gas fireplaces

3,293

$2,900,000* $666,174 $609,602

$14,224

$2,906

$11,318

tHe rittenHouse

Penthouse, 2 bedrooms, 2 full baths, 2 half baths, high end finishes and appointments throughout, balcony with city views

3,952

$2,675,000* $837,195 $885,553

$20,663

$4,195

$16,467

lanesborougH

3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, brand new, very high ceilings, his and hers master baths, custom kitchen, exquisite detail throughout.

3,467

$2,395,000* $557,550 $544,753

$12,711

$2,508

$10,203

220 w. rittenHouse sq.

Magnificent custom home with 3BR’s, 2.5BAs, balcony over Rittenhouse Square, chef’s kit., wonderful enter. space, lavish master suite

3,682

$1,975,000* $477,935 $540,403

$12,609

$2,388

$10,222

tHe warwick

1 bedroom plus den, magnificent city views to the north and south, open kitchen, custom details and finishes throughout, one-of-a kind

2,421

$1,475,000* $349,089 $346,065

$8,075

$1,598

$6,477

barclay

3 brs, 3 bas, most rooms have views of Rittenhouse Square, beautifully restored original details throughout

2,338

$1,350,000* $326,409 $350,002

$8,167

$1,584

$6,582

tHe warwick

3BR, 3BA, Bamboo flrs., spac. Kit w/custom wood cabinetry, granite counter tops, marble baths, 3 exposures, gym and hotel services

1,978

$1,350,000* $318,496 $308,302

$7,194

$1,444

$5,750

tHe warwick

3 bedrooms plus den, 3.5 baths, open floor plan, chef’s kitchen, marble baths, north and south city views

2421

$1,195,000* $285,860 $296,707

$6,923

$1,332

$5,591

1830 rittenHouse square

2 brs + den, 2.5 ba home, lots of nat. light, beautifully maintained original details, great ent. space, lrg. kit.

2,431

$1,185,000* $293,626 $356,745

$8,324

$1,483

$6,841

tHe warwick

2 bedrooms + den, 3 baths, gourmet kitchen, marble baths, walk-in-closets, hardwood floors

1,614

$829,000* $198,723 $203,519

$4,749

$830

$3,919

tHe warwick

2 bedrooms + den, 3 baths, sun-soaked, wood floors, open kitchen, marble baths

1,614

$799,000* $191,918 $198,231

$4,625

$804

$3,821

Parc rittenHouse

Rarely available south side 2 bedroom, 2 bath, hardwood floors, marble bathroom, custom upgr. throughout

1019

$799,900* $190,168 $186,175

$4,344

$777

$3,567

Parc rittenHouse

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, terrace on pool club deck, open custom kitchen, marble baths, wood floors

1,272

$775,000* $185,892 $192,114

$4,483

$772

$3,711

2009 sPruce street

3 bedrooms plus den, 2.5 baths, tri-level condominium, large private deck, luxurious master suite

2,844

$750,000* $180,974 $168,764

$3,938

$803

$3,135

tHe warwick

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, open floor plan, luxurious master suite, marble baths, wood floors, lots of light

1,199

$599,900* $143,842 $128,634

$2,134

$598

$2,404

barclay

Two bedrooms, two baths, hardwood floors, building offers 24 hour doorman and gym, located on Rittenhouse Square

1,075

$539,000* $131,596 $143,484

$3,348

$562

$2,786

1900 rittenHouse

1 bedroom, 1 bath, Juliet balcony, upgraded kitchen and bath, lots of light, separate dining room, hardwood floors

1,085

$479,900* $119,104 $132,166

$3,084

$537

$2,547

tHe warwick

One bedroom, one bath, hardwood floors, marble bath, custom kitchen

712

$399,900

$2,545

$418

$2,127

$56,530

$109,074

Parc rittenHouse

1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony, open kitchen, hardwood floors, marble bath

765

$389,900

$55,466

$112,662

$2,629

$406

$2,223

Parc rittenHouse

1 bedroom, large galley kitchen, open living and dining room, excellent closet space

661

$375,000

$53,518

$106,729

$2,490

$394

$2,096

Parc rittenHouse

Studio with wood floors, marble bath, open kitchen and city view

516

$269,900

$36,571

$74,303

$1,734

$268

$1,465

SOCIETY HILL

Total Square Footage

Price

Minimum Income Monthly Cost Monthly Tax Total Incld. Mtg, Condo Savings in a 31% for 10% Down Cash Fee & Taxes Tax Bracket Required Financing

Location

Monthly After Tax Cost

bank builDing

Brand new 2 BR + den, 2.5 BA home, lots of natural light, wood flrs, open chef’s kitchen, designer baths, services available from adjoining OMNI Hotel

2,025

$1,100,000* $258,737 $256,947

$5,995

$1,127

$4,868

bank builDing

Raw space that can be designed and built into a custom home overlooking Independence Mall

3,068

$950,000* $227,682 $255,277

$5,956

$1,016

$4,940

bank builDing

2 bedrooms plus den, 2.5 baths, hardwood floors, high-end open kitchen, designer bathrooms

2,117

$799,000* $190,281 $201,402

$4,699

$757

$3,943

bank builDing

Opportunity to create a custom home in a luxury, boutique condominium building on Independence Mall

2017

$575,000* $139,141 $159,045

$3,711

$561

$3,150

society Hill towers

Two bedrooms, one bath, parquet wood floors, washer/dryer, unobstructed river views, floor-to-ceiling windows

1,200

$399,000

$59,221

$130,914

$3,055

$450

$2,605

society Hill towers

2 bedrooms, 1 bath, unobstructed river views, beautifully upgraded kitchen and bath, wood floors throughout

1,200

$365,000

$56,802

$127,341

$2,971

$432

$2,539

society Hill towers

1 bedroom, 1 bath, bridge and city views, wood floors, upgraded kitchen

700

$279,900

$41,282

$88,346

2,061

$304

$1,757

society Hill towers

One bedroom, high floor, river view, investment opportunity

700

$269,900

$40,459

$88,265

Minimum Income Total for 10% Down Cash Required Financing

$2,060

$303

$1,756

Monthly Cost Incld. Mtg, Condo Fee & Taxes

Monthly Tax Savings in a 31% Tax Bracket

Monthly After Tax Cost

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Location

WASHINGTON SQUARE

Total Square Footage

Price

inDePenDence Place

Bi-level penthouse, 2 bedrooms. 2.5 baths, 2 kitchens, impeccably finished throughout, amazing river and city views

4,500

$2,295,000* $553,618 $565,869

$13,204

$2,871

$10,333

inDePenDence Place

Magnificent penthouse with 1 br plus den, 3.5 ba, completely renovated w/ custom finishes throughout, balcony over Wash. Sq, a must see!

3,153

$1,900,000* $458,112 $464,097

$10,829

$2,285

$8,544

tHe liPPincott

Custom 2 bedroom, 2 bath home with high celing, lots of light, open chefs kitchen, luxurious master suite, direct view of Washington Square

1,775

$1,075,000* $254,330 $256,397

$5,983

$1,131

$4,852

inDePenDence Place

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, beautifully ren. kit. and baths, balc. with city and river views, hdwd. flrs. in living areas

1,977

$825,000* $201,544 $209,714

$4,893

$909

$3,984

inDePenDence Place

1 bedroom, 1.5 baths, alcove, completely renovated with gourmet kitchen, designer bath, amazing closets

1,118

$479,900* $116,244 $117,081

$2,732

$491

$2,241

inDePenDence Place

1 bedroom plus alcove, balcony with south views, completely updated kitchen and baths, wood and tile floors, great closet space

1,118

$390,000

$2,699

$452

$2,247

$57,538

$115,657

HoPkinson House

Deluxe 1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony with views of Washington Square and the river, renovated kitchen and bat

1,063

$329,900

$49,186

$107,865

$2,517

$372

$2,145

inDePenDence Place

1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony, laundry room, excellent condition

928

$299,900

$44,603

$90,607

$2,114

$345

$1,769

inDePenDence Place

1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony, upgraded kitchen, new fixtures throughout

860

$270,000

$39,486

$78,771

$1,838

$295

$1,543

inDePenDence Place

1 bedroom, 1 bath, wood floors throughout, upgraded kitchen and bath, custom closets, balcony

928

$269,900

$40,873

$84,279

$1,967

$321

$1,646

stricklanD row

2 bedrooms, 1 bath, bi-level, excellent natural light, wood floors, open kitchen,

1,188

$250,000

$39,541

$103,209

$2,408

$292

$2,116

stricklanD row

2 bedrooms, 1 bath, bi-level, open kitchen, wood floors

857

$234,000

$36,512

$90,471

$2,111

$270

$1,841

Location

WATERFRONT

Total Square Footage

Price

Minimum Income Monthly Cost Monthly Tax Total Incld. Mtg, Condo Savings in a 31% for 10% Down Cash Fee & Taxes Tax Bracket Required Financing

Monthly After Tax Cost

Pier 3

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, open floor plan, fireplace, terrace off mastersuite, potential investment opportunity

1,300

$259,900

$41,044

$1,985

$99,922

$2,332

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$347

* Based on 20% Down Mortgage

Mortgage Financing available

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